Introduction
What DocuSense does, and when you need it.
DocuSense lets your AI agent read your documents the way you would. Instead of pasting a whole 50-page PDF into Claude or Cursor, your agent looks at the table of contents, opens the right section, and reads only the paragraph that answers. Every answer comes with a citation to the exact passage.
It works with PDFs, Word files, web pages, Markdown and text. It runs on your computer, it's free, and nothing is uploaded anywhere.
#What you get
About 23x less context than pasting documents, so answers are faster and cheaper.
Every quote links to the exact text it came from, and can be checked.
Add an updated file and ask what changed, without re-reading either version.
See where your documents disagree, with both sides quoted.
#How much it saves
On the same set of questions:
| Context your agent reads | |
|---|---|
| Pasting the documents | 160,179 tokens |
| Typical retrieval (RAG) | 15,765 tokens |
| DocuSense | 6,869 tokens |
For a single precise fact, that's 478 tokens instead of 9,090. You can see your own numbers any time with
docusense savings.
#Great for
- Long specs, API references and design docs while coding
- Policies, handbooks and contracts where you need exact wording
- Documents that change, where you need to know what's different
- Checking internal rules against an external standard
If your documents are a few short files that already fit in your agent's context, you don't need DocuSense. It pays off on long documents, many documents, and documents your agent reads again and again.
#Works with
Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any other app that supports MCP (the standard way to give AI agents tools).
Install DocuSense, then follow the Quickstart. It takes about a minute.